CNN —President Joe Biden can ill afford a long, hot summer of protest that comes to a boil in time for the Democratic National Convention in August and then bleeds into the final weeks of an already venomous clash with Donald Trump.
The nationwide campus protests are not as pervasive as mass civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests that raged in the 1960s and 1970s.
This has been especially testing for Biden — a staunch supporter of Israel dating back to 1970s Prime Minister Golda Meir.
More than 3 million Americans served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.
This may also help explain why Biden had not addressed the campus protests in detail before Thursday.
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